Species with Funny English Common Names

Where do all these species live? Use this field guide to find out.

All 117

Macrozamia communis ¹

Slickseed Fuzzybean ²
Strophostyles leiosperma

Shaggy soldier ³
Galinsoga quadriradiata

Liatris scariosa ⁴

Helianthus angustifolius ⁵

Red deadnettle ⁶
Lamium purpureum

Common Toadflax ⁷
Linaria vulgaris

white baneberry ⁸
Actaea pachypoda

Valerianella radiata ⁹

Sleepy Morning ¹⁰
Waltheria indica

Yellow Water-lily ¹¹
Nuphar lutea

Luffa acutangula ¹²

Carex hirsutella ¹³

Aechmea nudicaulis ¹⁴

Hairy Shadow Witch ¹⁵
Ponthieva racemosa

jack-in-the-pulpits and cobra lilies ¹⁶
arisaema

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